Cream dipper



H. R. TALBOT May 1-9, 1925.

CREAM DIPPER Filed 001'.- 27

INVENTOR HERBE R1" R THL 5 07- BY W ATTORNEYS Fatented May 19, i925 HERBERT a. TALBOT, or nrnenwoon, new messy.

CREAM DIPPER.

Application fi1ed October 27, 1192's. Serial no. 671,1 87.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERB RT R. TALBOT, a citizen of the United States of America. residing at Ridgewood, in the county of 5 Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful ln'lprovements in Cream Dippers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cream clippers, and the object of my invention is to provide an improved construction of the latter by which proper cooperation of the dipper elements is assured, while its sanitaryconstruction is not in any way impaired.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a perspective of a dipper in which my invention is embodied in one form, the cooperating portions of the dipper cup being shown in spaced position;

the cup elements in another position; and- Fig. 8 is a section on the line 33, Fig. 2.

The present improvement relates to a dipper of the type shown in the Mansfield Patent No. 1,013,503. 1 The dipper comprises a wire supporting rod 1, having at one end a finger loop 5, while at its other end it carries a cup 6 which forms the entering end of the dipper. The cylindrical body 7 of the dipper has attached thereto at 8 a manipulating wire 9 slidably secured by loops 10 and 11 to the rod 4, and provided with a manipulating offset upper end 12, prefer ably looped back upon itself at 13 to afford a rounded end.

I have found that although the manipulating wire 9 for the cylindrical body 7 of the dipper is rigidly secured to the body of the latter at 8, and is guided by the spaced loops 10 and 11 on the supporting rod 4:. the arm X of the wire, to the offset end of which the body 7 is attached, is too weak to hold the latter rigidly central on the rod 4. Pressure on the body, incident for example to the cleansing of its interior, is apt to bend the arm X and thus deflect the body 7 to off center position with re spect to the rod 1. Consequently, when the body 7 is shifted downward to engage the cup 6, the lower edge of the body 7 is out of register with the flange 14 of the cup 6, and does not telescope into the latter properly, but requires more or less adjustment to H attain the interfitting sleeve J'Oilli! WhiQh is W requisite to afford a seal,

Fig. 2 is a broken side elevation showing To obviate this difficulty. I now propose to provide the lower margin of the cylin drical body 7 with aguide flange 15, which serves to center the body 7 with respect to the cup when the parts are brought into cooperating relationship (Fig. 3). To further insure the proper centering of the parts with respect to each other, I provide the body 7 with an integral, diametral bridge piece 16 at its lower or cup end, the bridge being centrally apertured at 17 to slide freely on the rod 5. The a-pertured area 18 of the bridge is preferably slightly enlarged, the side spans of the bridge being as narrow as possible in order to afford as little obstruction as possible, consistent" with requisite strength. The bridge piece 16 is arched and extends at its central portion as far as permissible below the plane of the margin of the flange 15 of the body 7 ofthe dipper, in order to afford large openings 19 between the flange and bridge piece for the insertion of'the finger, or cleaning brush or rag to the interior of the body 7. It will be noted from Fig. 2 that the arch of the bridge lies as closely as possible to the bottom of the cup 6 in assembled position of the parts, and that the bridge spans 16 conform approximately to the inner contour of the cup 6 and'lie adjacent the inner face of the latter in the assembled or sleeved position of the parts.

This construction insures absolute registry of thelower end of the body 7 with the flange '14: of the cup 6, so that the telescopic or sleeved engagement of the parts is perfectly assured. The flange 15, moreover. conforms approximately to the curvature of the cup at point 20, at which the cylindrical flange 14 thereof merges into the bot-tom of the cup and secures a better liquid seal than the edge engagement heretofore provided.

It is of course possible to omit one arch of the bridge and still obtain an improved operation, but this is not so firm or satis factory a construction as that shown. It is in any suitable way to the body 7 o'fthe cap, but this does not afford as workmanlike obvious, moreover, that the bridge 16 may be formed of-an independent plece secured construction as the integral bridge member.

shown. With these indications of some of the various possible modifications of construction I claim- A cream dipper comprising a cylindrical body portion open at both ends, a separable cup-like closure for the lower end of said body portion and having a cylindrical flange into which the lower end of the body portion telescopically fits and forms a seal, a supporting rod secured centrally in the bottom of the cup, a centering guide at the lower 1 end of the body portion and engaging said rod, said centering guide extending below the lower margin of the body portion and affording room for the entry of a cleaning utensil to the interior of said body and means for manipulating the body portion to separate the same from the cup.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. 1

= HERBERT R. TALBOT? 

